Example sentences of "[vb past] around the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack paced around the church . |
| 2 | Doyle was taken aback , and looked slightly morose as they paced around the yard . |
| 3 | Emily paced around the book-lined study and blamed her father for his hostile attitude to Craig . |
| 4 | She paced around the room thinking desperately , she needed free reign to look over her father 's books and records and to speak to the men in his employ . |
| 5 | Emily paced around the room , her skirts swishing against the carpet . |
| 6 | He paced around the room . |
| 7 | My mum and Mrs Quigley were now ritting on the arm of the sofa , their eyes glued to the screen , as Quigley paced around the room . |
| 8 | His fur leggings became saturated as he paced around the edge . |
| 9 | Feminist differences which erupted around the 1912 amendment act were symptomatic of growing divisions within the women 's movement over sexuality . |
| 10 | A NEW row erupted around the Government last night after it signalled it would go slow on new laws to outlaw ticket touts . |
| 11 | In Sarajevo , some of the heaviest shelling in recent months erupted around the besieged city as leaders of Bosnia 's warring factions prepared for a new round of peace talks in New York . |
| 12 | Ken put it on top of the locker , where it staggered around the perimeter mewing and testing space with its paw . |
| 13 | The doorway gaped around the guard . |
| 14 | Sand-coloured bastion walls rose around the pool , hiding us from the desert world outside . |
| 15 | FOR THE NEXT SEVEN WEEKS they moseyed around the Western Isles , often encountering rough weather : Skye , Raasay , Coll , Mull , Ulva , Inchkenneth and Iona . |
| 16 | This was not a particularly difficult task since they were all pathetically trained and equipped and stood out conspicuously as they wandered around the countryside asking stupid and suspicious questions in foreign accents . |
| 17 | ‘ When the guard — he was a KGB man ’ — Myeloski had raised his eyebrows at that point — ‘ had gone , I wandered around the library . |
| 18 | As Jane wandered around the room , poking in the cupboards , examining the small but luxurious bathroom , Patrick stood by the window staring absently into the Green . |
| 19 | He pushed his chair back and wandered around the room . |
| 20 | He wandered around the streets in the heart of the city , past darkened buildings with odd floors of offices lit , ready , and empty . |
| 21 | She wandered around the lodge , looking patently bored , refusing to take part in activities , and complaining about the service , the primitive facilities , and the lack of time Matthew had for her . |
| 22 | For an hour or so Fabia wandered around the area which the dramatist Goethe had once called ‘ a paradise on earth ’ , and began to wish that she had more holiday than she had in which to explore more fully . |
| 23 | He states that an expert on ancient British dialects considered the wall of brass to be a confusion with an old tradition that if the ring of sluices and embankments which Bladud erected around the ‘ brazen ’ waters of the Fenland were broken by flood , then Stamford would be surrounded by ‘ brayes ’ or shallow stretches of water ! |
| 24 | Clustered around the main building are a number of older stone-built dye-houses , drying stoves and outbuildings , some of which have been imaginatively converted . |
| 25 | In Roman times , of course , Naples and its sprawling suburbs did not exist , but clustered around the shores of the bay of Naples there were many small , thriving towns and ports . |
| 26 | Parents clustered around the gates at the beginning and end of the school day . |
| 27 | They all trooped in , eating their fish and chips , and clustered around the bed . |
| 28 | In psychology , work clustered around the ideas of Frederiksen ( 1975 ) , Meyer ( 1975 ) , Rumelhart ( 1975 ) , Kintsch ( 1977 ) , Thorndyke ( 1977 ) , and Mandler and Johnson ( 1977 ) has led to dozens of studies based on an analysis of various types of text structure and the relationship between text structure and recall . |
| 29 | They did not express community , clustered around the green and church , in the adventitious manner of the true village ; they were drawn up in parallel lines to each side of the road . |
| 30 | Corvan seems to draw on the ‘ traditional ’ associations — the feelings of continuity — clustered around the Scottish tune , ‘ Na Good Luck about the House ’ , to support his nostalgically cast complaint . |